The list below is a sampling of online resources and tools that may be of use to practitioners using oral history and narrative for social change and movement building. Please suggest additional ideas and tools using the comments feature below!

The Oral Historians Digital Toolbox – This comprehensive site produced by Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling indexes a wide variety of tools (many of them free) for use by oral historians and audio producers. Includes info on indexing and databases, online content management and delivery, digital storytelling, audio and video editing, qualitative analysis tools and more.

Stories Matter – Free, open source software from Concordia’s Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling that facilitates the “archiving of digital video and audio materials, enabling users to annotate, analyze, evaluate and export materials, as well as tag, index, search, and browse within interviews, sessions, and clips or across entire collections.”

Soundcloud – bills itself as “the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.” Other, similar sites include: Houdbite and Audioboo

Broadcastr – “is an app for iPhone and Android that creates intimate and immersive experiences by unlocking pictures and audio relevant to where you are. It turns your smartphone into a multimedia guide to the world, and everyone can contribute.”

Public Radio Exchange – “is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming. PRX is also a growing social network and community of listeners, producers, and stations collaborating to reshape public radio.” Allows users to post work online and connect with other media makers.

Transom – “channels new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, and discusses that work, and encourages more. Transom is a performance space, an open editorial session, an audition stage, a library, and a hangout.”

Developing mutually beneficial partnerships between community groups and universities or established non-profits (examples?)

Strategies for Sustaining

Do other, more mainstream work to support our radical oral history work.

Peer to peer strategies and bartering. Example: I will transcribe three interviews for you if you will edit my audio. (This, instead of asking artists, photographers, media-makers, etc. to do their work pro-bono, which many practitioners see as a devaluation of their skills.)